Isao Sakamaki, Kim Adams, Maria Fernanda Gomez Medina, Javier Leonardo Castellanos Cruz, Nooshin Jafari, Mahdi Tavakoli, Heidi Janz
{"title":"Preliminary testing by adults of a haptics-assisted robot platform designed for children with physical impairments to access play.","authors":"Isao Sakamaki, Kim Adams, Maria Fernanda Gomez Medina, Javier Leonardo Castellanos Cruz, Nooshin Jafari, Mahdi Tavakoli, Heidi Janz","doi":"10.1080/10400435.2017.1318974","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10400435.2017.1318974","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Development of children's cognitive and perceptual skills depends heavily on object exploration and experience in their physical world. For children who have severe physical impairments, one of the biggest concerns is the loss of opportunities for meaningful play with objects, including physical contact and manipulation. Assistive robots can enable children to perform object manipulation through the control of simple interfaces. Touch sensations conveyed through haptic interfaces in the form of force reflection or force assistance can help a child to sense the environment and to control a robot. A robotic system with forbidden region virtual fixtures (VFs) was tested in an object sorting task. Three sorting tasks-by color, by shape, and by both color and shape-were performed by 10 adults without disability and one adult with cerebral palsy. Tasks performed with VFs were accomplished faster than tasks performed without VFs, and deviations of the motion area were smaller with VFs than without VFs. For the participant with physical impairments, two out of three tasks were slower with the VFs. This implies that forbidden region VFs are not always able to improve user task performance. Alignment with an individual's unique motion characteristics can improve VF assistance.</p>","PeriodicalId":282300,"journal":{"name":"Assistive technology : the official journal of RESNA","volume":" ","pages":"242-250"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10400435.2017.1318974","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"35158836","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Suzanne Martin, Elaine Armstrong, Eileen Thomson, Eloisa Vargiu, Marc Solà, Stefan Dauwalder, Felip Miralles, Jean Daly Lynn
{"title":"A qualitative study adopting a user-centered approach to design and validate a brain computer interface for cognitive rehabilitation for people with brain injury.","authors":"Suzanne Martin, Elaine Armstrong, Eileen Thomson, Eloisa Vargiu, Marc Solà, Stefan Dauwalder, Felip Miralles, Jean Daly Lynn","doi":"10.1080/10400435.2017.1317675","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10400435.2017.1317675","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Cognitive rehabilitation is established as a core intervention within rehabilitation programs following a traumatic brain injury (TBI). Digitally enabled assistive technologies offer opportunities for clinicians to increase remote access to rehabilitation supporting transition into home. Brain Computer Interface (BCI) systems can harness the residual abilities of individuals with limited function to gain control over computers through their brain waves. This paper presents an online cognitive rehabilitation application developed with therapists, to work remotely with people who have TBI, who will use BCI at home to engage in the therapy. A qualitative research study was completed with people who are community dwellers post brain injury (end users), and a cohort of therapists involved in cognitive rehabilitation. A user-centered approach over three phases in the development, design and feasibility testing of this cognitive rehabilitation application included two tasks (Find-a-Category and a Memory Card task). The therapist could remotely prescribe activity with different levels of difficulty. The service user had a home interface which would present the therapy activities. This novel work was achieved by an international consortium of academics, business partners and service users.</p>","PeriodicalId":282300,"journal":{"name":"Assistive technology : the official journal of RESNA","volume":" ","pages":"233-241"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10400435.2017.1317675","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"35170856","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introduction: special issue on distance learning.","authors":"","doi":"10.1080/10400435.2004.10132076","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10400435.2004.10132076","url":null,"abstract":"gy . T hi s ed it io n fo cu se s on th e ut il iz at io n an d im pl em en ta ti on of di st an ce le ar ni ng in hi gh er ed uca ti on . A ll te ch no lo gy th at is fu nc ti on al is by it s ve ry n at u re as si st iv e, w he th er it so lv es an ed uc ati on al pr ob le m ,a dd re ss es an im pe di m en ti ss ue ,o r de al s w it h a pr ob le m of sp ac e an d ti m e, as do es di sta nc e ed uc at io n .T hu s, in to da y' s w or ld w he re ed uc at io n h as be co m e th e no rm ra th er th an th e ex ce pt io n, di st an ce ed uc at io n br id ge s th e pr ov er bi al ga p be tw ee n pr of es si on al s in th e w or ld of w or k an d th e de m an d fo r co nt in ui ng ed uc at io n. T hi s sp ec ia l ed it io n co ve rs to pi cs re la te d to di st an ce le ar ni ng pr og ra m s ra ng in g fr om in st ru ct io na l de si gn /c ur ri cu lu m is su es to th e ev al ua ti on of th e te ch no lo gy ut il iz ed in co ur se de li ve ry .A dd it io na ll y, a di st an ce ed uc at io n re so ur ce gu id e h as be en co m pi le d to se rv e as a to ol ki t fo r su bs cr ib er s in te re st ed in en ha nc in g th ei r ac um en re la te d to di st an ce ed uc atio n .T he re so ur ce gu id e in cl ud es re fe re nc es fr om si te s li st in g jo ur na l ar ti cl es , or ga ni za ti on s, an d ge ne ra l in fo rm at io n ab ou t di st an ce ed uc at io n. B e su re to ch ec k o u t th e re so ur ce gu id e th at fo llo w s th is ed it or ia l. In th is is su e, M ar ti n B la ir , H il ar y G ol d m an n ,","PeriodicalId":282300,"journal":{"name":"Assistive technology : the official journal of RESNA","volume":" ","pages":"73-84"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2004-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10400435.2004.10132076","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"24933533","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Response to letter to the editor.","authors":"U. Roentgen, G. Gelderblom, L. D. de Witte","doi":"10.1097/00010694-197907000-00011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/00010694-197907000-00011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":282300,"journal":{"name":"Assistive technology : the official journal of RESNA","volume":"130 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123250718","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Digital Divide","authors":"B. M. Mollica","doi":"10.1007/978-1-4614-6170-8_100863","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6170-8_100863","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":282300,"journal":{"name":"Assistive technology : the official journal of RESNA","volume":" 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113950645","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}